Urban Design Studio

The mission of the Urban Design Studio (UDS) is to raise the communities awareness of better design practices for our built environment with a focus on moving our city and region towards a sustainable future. Through design charrette facilitation, workshops, meetings, classes and general outreach to the community, the UDS offers a central location to discuss issues in the community and work in a collaborative environment to come up with creative solutions for the betterment of all.

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Fantastic turnout at the UDS tree mapping for the mayor's Give a Day campaign

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Good luck to both of our basketball teams at the NCAA championship games!

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Internet trolls beware: Louisville has an actual troll

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Alfred Twu's vision for high speed rail in the US. Glad to see our Louisville was included!

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Our new work in progress: A detailed 3D model of downtown Louisville, using Google Sketchup. Too much fun.

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Today's bridge underpass is tomorrow's coolest movie night! This idea occurred to us at the Big Four Bridge opening. With the pier facing north you would not have interference from the sun.

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Great use of alley space to add amenities to residential units.

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Denver! Travel by Train indeed!

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Louisville's first Ciclovia, appropriately named the CycLOUvia. I overheard many people asking for more of these, any thoughts?

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This Sunday, October 14th, a portion of Bardstown Road and Baxter Avenue (the “hip” part of town for those that don’t live here or get out much) will be closed for a few hours (legally) to all forms of motorized transport.  Bring your bike, your skateboard, your rollerblades or skates, walkin’ shoes, unicycle, or whatever and enjoy the shops, eateries, and people watching of the Highlands like never before!   WE CAN ALL PLAY IN THE STREETS!  

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this looks fantastic!

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We are so excited about this!

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Great green roof managed by Bernheim on the Mies van der Rohe building on Main Street.

#louisville #sustainability #greenroof

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This David deserves a closeup.

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Wide sidewalks are just part of the equation for vibrant streets. Every city has a giant gold David, right?

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An issue of scale: Cityscape scale in 1800’s versus cityscape scale in 1990’s

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At the risk of perpetuating a stereotype, we totally ran into the colonel in downtown louisville today. This city rocks.

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Urban Design Studio PARK(ing) Day 2012 - Imagine Transit (by Patrick Piuma)

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Our Parking Day streetcar stop got some Louisville love by the locals. He might be waiting for that streetcar for a few decades, though.